Cable-clip



PATENTED JAN. 19, 1904.

- 0. 0. HOFPMANN.

CABLE 0mm, APPLICATION FILED JULY 31. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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KIWI I EESEE- UNITED STATES Patented .Tafiuary 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO o. HOFFMANN, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,- ASSIGNOR To FREDRIC GREER, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CABLE-CLIP.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 749,988, dated January 19, 1904.

Application filed July 31, 1902- Serial No. 117 806. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OTTO C. HoFFI/IANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable-Clips, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is the production of an improved clip for suspending telephone and other cables.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View showing a clip ready to be applied to a cable. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the clip before the hook is raised to tighten the band; and Fig. 3 is a central sectional VlBW of the clip, showing it in its final position on the cable.

In the production of a cable-supporting clip embodying the features of my invention I provide a hook 1, made, preferably, of wire, having a clamping-bar 2, an eye 3, a waist 4, and two hooked ends 5, which latter are formed in this instance by bending the two ends of the wire in a return curve. This hook in the form shown in the drawings is made of a single piece of wire of suitable gage bent to form a completely-inclosed loop intermediate its ends and said ends bent back upon themselves in a return curve. At the waist the wire necessarily is double, one strand passing beside another. A band 6, in this instance formed of sheet metal, preferably painted, galvanized, or otherwise treated to protect it from the weather, is passed through the eye 3 and around the waist 1 of the hook 1, forming the loop 7 as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

In the application of the clip to a cable 8 the band 6 is passed around the cable and the free end of said band inserted into the eye 3, bent backward over the clamping-bar 2 in the loop 9, and flattened against itself between the hooked ends 5. The hook 1 is then grasped and turned into an upright position, which movement draws the waist 41.- against the loop 7 in one end of the band 6 and forces the clamping-bar 2 against the loop 7, said clamping-bar also binding a portion of said band near the loop 7 against the periphery of the cable, thus at this point firmly clamping both ends of the band. Inasmuch as both ends of the band 6 are thus held between the clamping-bar and cable the grip of the hook upon the band is exceedingly firm. In practice the band 6 is looped over the waist 4 of the hook 1, as shown in Fig. 1, before said clip is delivered to the lineman for use, and the clips may be prepared in this way for the market, if that is desirable.

Various slight changes may be resorted to in the general form and arrangement of the several parts herein described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I would have it understood that I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

I claim as my invention 1. A suspension-hook member for cableclips, formed from a piece of wire bent in a complete loop intermediate the ends of said wire, one side of said loop forming a waist for said hook, the opposite side of said loop forming a clamping-bar, said wire also being bent at its ends to form a suspension-hook.

2. In a cable-clip, in combination, a suspension-hook member having a suspension-hook at one end, a clamping-bar at its other end, and a waist intermediate its ends; and a band looped around said waist and adapted to be passed around a cable and looped over said clamping-bar, said bar being adapted to exert pressure upon said band at a point intermediate said waist and the cable. 7

3. In a cable-hanger, the combination, with a hook provided with a heel portion having parallel members slightly spaced apart, of a strap having its ends rove in opposite directions in the space between said parallel members, substantially as described.

4. In a cable-clip, in combination, a hook member having a loop; and a band having its ends rove in opposite directions through said loop, one side of said loop eonstitutingaelampband, said band having one of its ends bent ing-bar adapted to exert pressure upon said around one side of said 100p, and its other end IO band.I b1 1 b I h k bent around the other side of said loop.

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